# 会社法 / Companies Act — 第四百二十条 (Article 420) - Law: 会社法 (Companies Act), 平成十七年法律第八十六号 - English title "Companies Act": Ministry of Justice translation - Kind: Act — the distinction between 法律 (Act), 政令 (Cabinet Order), 省令 (Ministerial Order) and 条例 (local ordinance) decides who may issue it and what it may say. - Provision: 第四百二十条 (Article 420)（代表執行役） — address `art-420` - Text in force since: 2026-08-12 - URL (the page that opens at this provision): https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-420 - Permanent URL (e-Gov law ID, never renamed): https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-420 - Every provision below carries its address and both URLs on the line under it. - Japanese text: e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁). English: as marked on each line below. Only the Japanese as published by the government has legal effect; the text below is a copy of it. Every English rendering below is a translation and says which kind: the Ministry of Justice's translation, or this site's machine translation, whose model and date the Sources list names. They are never merged and never substituted for one another. --- ### 第四百二十条（代表執行役） — (Representative Executive Officers) caption: Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System art-420 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-420 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-420 **第一項** 取締役会は、執行役の中から代表執行役を選定しなければならない。この場合において、執行役が一人のときは、その者が代表執行役に選定されたものとする。 art-420/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-420/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-420/par-1 Board of directors must appoint representative executive officers from among the executive officers. In these cases, if there is only one executive officer, that person is to be regarded as having been appointed as the representative executive officer. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第二項** 代表執行役は、いつでも、取締役会の決議によって解職することができる。 art-420/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-420/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-420/par-2 A representative executive officer may be removed at any time by a resolution at the board of directors meeting. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System **第三項** 第三百四十九条第四項及び第五項の規定は代表執行役について、第三百五十二条の規定は民事保全法第五十六条に規定する仮処分命令により選任された執行役又は代表執行役の職務を代行する者について、第四百一条第二項から第四項までの規定は代表執行役が欠けた場合又は定款で定めた代表執行役の員数が欠けた場合について、それぞれ準用する。 art-420/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-420/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-420/par-3 The provisions of Article 349, paragraphs (4) and (5) apply mutatis mutandis to representative executive officers, the provisions of Article 352 apply mutatis mutandis to a person appointed by a provisional disposition order provided for in Article 56 of the Civil Provisional Remedies Act to perform the duties of executive officers or representative executive officers on behalf of the same, and the provisions of Article 401, paragraphs (2) through (4) apply mutatis mutandis to the cases where there are no representative executive officers in office, or where there is a vacancy which results in a shortfall in the number of executive officers prescribed in the articles of incorporation, respectively. Ministry of Justice translation — Japanese Law Translation Database System --- ## Cites - art-420/par-3: 第三百四十九条第四項 → 会社法 第三百四十九条第四項 (Article 349, paragraph (4)), art-349/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-349/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-349/par-4 - art-420/par-3: 第五項 → 会社法 第三百四十九条第五項 (Article 349, paragraph (5)), art-349/par-5 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-349/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-349/par-5 - art-420/par-3: 第三百五十二条 → 会社法 第三百五十二条 (Article 352), art-352 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-352 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-352 - art-420/par-3: 民事保全法第五十六条 → e-Gov law 401AC0000000091, 第五十六条 (Article 56), art-56 — not held in this collection - art-420/par-3: 第四百一条第二項から第四項まで → 会社法 第四百一条第二項 (Article 401, paragraph (2)), art-401/par-2 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-401/par-2 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-401/par-2 - art-420/par-3: 第四百一条第二項から第四項まで → 会社法 第四百一条第三項 (Article 401, paragraph (3)), art-401/par-3 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-401/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-401/par-3 - art-420/par-3: 第四百一条第二項から第四項まで → 会社法 第四百一条第四項 (Article 401, paragraph (4)), art-401/par-4 — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-401/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-401/par-4 ## Cited by 8 provisions cite this one. No official source publishes this direction. - 会社法 第四百八条第一項（指名委員会等設置会社と執行役又は取締役との間の訴えにおける会社の代表等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-408/par-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-408/par-1 - 会社法 第四百八条第三項（指名委員会等設置会社と執行役又は取締役との間の訴えにおける会社の代表等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-408/par-3 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-408/par-3 - 会社法 第四百八条第四項（指名委員会等設置会社と執行役又は取締役との間の訴えにおける会社の代表等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-408/par-4 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-408/par-4 - 会社法 第四百八条第五項（指名委員会等設置会社と執行役又は取締役との間の訴えにおける会社の代表等） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-408/par-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-408/par-5 - 会社法 第四百十六条第四項第十二号（指名委員会等設置会社の取締役会の権限） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-416/par-4/item-12 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-416/par-4/item-12 - 会社法 第八百七十条第一項第一号（陳述の聴取） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-870/par-1/item-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-870/par-1/item-1 - 会社法 第九百三十七条第一項第二号イ（裁判による登記の嘱託） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-937/par-1/item-2/sub-1 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-937/par-1/item-2/sub-1 - 会社法 第九百六十条第一項第五号（取締役等の特別背任罪） — https://japanlaw.org/ja/companies-act/art-960/par-1/item-5 · https://japanlaw.org/l/417AC0000000086/art-960/par-1/item-5 --- ## Sources - e-Gov 法令検索, Digital Agency (デジタル庁) — 会社法 — the text in force from 2026-08-12 (https://laws.e-gov.go.jp/law/417AC0000000086/20260812_508AC0000000064), retrieved 2026-09-17 - Japanese Law Translation Database System, Ministry of Justice (法務省) — Companies Act — Ministry of Justice translation (part 1 of 2) (https://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/en/laws/view/4481/tb), retrieved 2026-09-17 - This site's parser, version 211 — 会社法 — structure, counts, cross-references and defined terms, computed 2026-09-17